a piece of advice for anyone who gets a kiddie pool and fills it with water:

if you have a cell phone in your pocket, don't get in.

i know i have some smarts, i can do complicated mental tasks relatively well, but sometimes i am capable of monumental stupidity. ava had soaked me with the hose, and so i just decided to throw caution to the wind and hop in with her, so carter had something to lean on since he did not want to put his nether regions in the cold water. i said to ava "gee, there must be a rock under the pool!" oh, nooooooo. that is no rock. that is a completely submerged piece of electronic equipment.

when the led started glowing orange, i took the battery out--it just gave the impression that it was about to explode. i guess tomorrow we go to the verizon store.

we made macaroons today--all the way to the point where you add the egg whites. no eggs. so, we switched and made coconut-chocolate-peanut butter-banana-nut thingamajigs. pretty tasty. and ugly.